March 2005 - Posts

• Burritos and SSIS 2005 Data Flow Tasks...

  How are these two topics possibly related you ask? Well, I'm in Mexico City, I'm eating a burrito, and I'm bogging about data flow tasks in SQL Server 2005 Integration Services. So there you go. I'm going to start to use some Business Intelligence / Data Read More... Posted Thursday, March 31, 2005 3:27 PM by rdoherty | 4 Comments

• Sourcing XML Data in SSIS 2005

  So picking up from where I left off in my last post, I want to talk about my experience using the XML Source adapter in SSIS 2005 to load the data I extracted from SharePoint using the Data Retrieval service I blogged about in my last post. I had gotten Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 16, 2005 2:57 PM by rdoherty | 4 Comments

• MMM - Dogfood..... SSIS in Action

  We use a really unattractive term here at Microsoft to describe the use of pre-release software internally to get our jobs done. We call it dog food. I think SteveB may have come up with this very descriptive term, as in "Eat your own.... dog food." Anyway, Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 01, 2005 4:38 PM by rdoherty | 2 Comments